The Sun. — London, England, 1810-08-25 00:00:00

POETRY, EPITAPH ON THE'VEAR By THE HONOURABLE •R. W. SPENCER. i Tis gone, with its thorns and its roses, With the dust of dead ages to mix ! Ti me's charnel for ever incloses The Year Eighteen I lUndred and Six. Though many may question thy merit. 1 duly thy dirge %Ail peiform; Content it thy heir but inherit T hy portion of sunshine and storm. I ‘IY blame and my blessing thou ;barest, For black were thy moments in part ; tut oh ! thy fair days were the fairest That ever have shone on my heart ! lf thine was a gloom the completest That Death's darkest cypress could throw, Tine s too, was a garlaad the sweetest That life itt full blosom could show. °Pe hand gave the balmy correaor, Of ills which the other had brew'tl, One draught from thy chalice of nectar All taste of thy bitter subdu'd. 'Tis gone, with its thorns and its roses ! With mine tears naore precious may mix, To hallow this midnight which closes The "Vear Eighteen ilundreit and Six"! TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Seeing in the Suw, Star, and other Papers, I :4 curious Calculation," which appears ,to have e't copied fr om a P rov i nc i a l Print, and which is e 'rencous from beginning to end, I have therefore Your your form er sta t em e n t, an d ha ve t o reqhest Your insertion of the annexed A CURIOUS CALCULATION (Correaed.) 2 . The difference b e tw een r i s i ng e ver y, morning at " h il t and eight o'clock in. the c ou rse of 40 sea rs (sup, ', ° siorf, the person should go to bed at the sam e time 41e otherwise would, and regarding the bissextile as 4 Matter of course) amounts (o 29,220 hours, and all "'ing 8,766 hours to a mean solar year,, is three t 3 a, 12! days, 8 hours, reckoning 24 hours to a 'aY, so that is just the same as if teu years of life were be added (and no particle of time less) to eh . we might command eight hours every day tor „. ) e culti vat i on of our own minds in knowledge or vtrl ue, or the dispatch of business. • This is easily t r oved by i nverse p ro p ort f on , as 40 years o f two ours each day, is exactly equal to t 0 years of eight It o ots each day, which is aiso equal to to 3 I -3d 'f. e4 rS of 24 hours each day, as above stated: N.B. The period of 40 yea r s mus t b e seleEted so t 9 not to include th e ye ars 1 752 or i other Wise Ae calculation wo u ld b e 2 9 , 198 , or 29 , 218 h ours . e error in th e 'Conner Statement in the Papers ap ,'.ears. to 'have !peen in deducting 10 days for leap na rk, instead of adding 20 /roars on that score. am, Sir, your's, A CONSTANT REAPER. the zesterdav fifty Rams, and one hundred Ewes, of gtrue l'aular breed, pert of a fl oc k f orme rly th e r()- 0(?rty of Don Manuel Godoy, P:ince of fie l'eacc, _, .. adually pre s e n ted by t h e S upr e me R egency o f Ir i " 1 0 Colonel Downie, were sold by auction at r • Xemp's premises, near the Angel Inn, bin- The Sheep had been previtusiy driven from he Me a d ow a dj o i n i ng b y S pan i sh Sh ep h er d s, and th " sale commenced about half past ten o'clock. A )1 41 M - rolls a-semblage of Noblemen, Gentlemen, , \v 'eed , r, and Agriculturists, wer e pr e sent. Th e : 0 01 of this Hot k was allowed to be of the finest 1 ( 1 1 _ 314 . They w, re in general full-mouthed Rams, I,"it . of them not in the,best condition, but all were ralthy. The Ewes were young, nimble, and in 40,I,erable condition. Both Rains and Ewes averaged tt ° 'ut fifteen guineas each, 'which, according to the vas of Mr. Daniel Smith, the Auctioneer, vs a s Much less than he had sold the same breed for, rt‘ yllle tune +ince, at Richmond. Among the pur 'dsers were, Guineas k ) rd Mansfield, a Pa u l ar E we - - 17 It C. Talbot ditto .. • - ig to ( .3 ' - tit t , , ttto -- - 11 Sir ;0, ditto . - - • x b., t• Banks, a Paular Rain - - 26 v : Peat, a ewe - - - • • 12i leo, a Ram - - . 6 ;Vi to, li , Littison, a Ram . - 3 1 ;Vito, ditt o - - ' 23 '-',to ditt i l r!tto, di tto - - - - 167 "to ditto - - IL)r:trio,dittc - - - IS - - - 19 • ;Vto, ditto - - 1 6 • Ditto, ditto 23 hi:dAtt - - ... . . Ce l i t i t t ° leman. % - .lilto is a Considerable breide - 21 r, k,bougbt several in addition to the above. _ _ " 1 r• King, . ti..LOX, a . Rant . 37 D itto, COX, ditto - - 13 "iitto a Ewe Air ;.. - -- - 14 Ar ,_. .o . rdharn, a Ram . - - - 13 ji.r. El i as t. °Wham, ditto - .. 11 et°, ditto - - - - 26 'lto, ditto - - -.- 1 4 1 1 The ot h er purc h asers were M essrs. Halford, revl er, Flower, Burrell, Cherry, Ford, Riley, Lud ra Gibbons, and Hoare. The sale lasted several g a rs, and, many distinguished Agriculturists and Nv ' e eders, in addition toThose we have enumerat e d, er e on the field. 41, 114 L—At half past twelve o'clock last night an t' rt ning fire broke out in the o ffi ce of the Traveller tr , ie ning Newspaper, Fleet-street, which 4 in the i tir seofan hour, unfortunately consumed the whole 4 .46 iSeS. It was first obsert ed' in the second floor, 4 114 , spread with such rapidity, that, notwithstanding 44Plentitul supply of water, and the prompt attend -I,:e of several excellent engines, no part of the pro- II eye nor the house could be saved. The adjoining :uses were all pre s erved, however, ' bat their I:',ners suGred considerable injury in removing p act goo +s into the adjoining court, the greater I vi t PI which, in the alarm, vs as thrown from the t ec i, s tld °w.s. The cause of the fire has not been ascer *l.hgt ti but we a e happy to say no lives were lost. N 4 h ouse way iusured, but we have not learned to a t tAtent. BRIGH ro.v, At:G. The South Gloucester Militia were forme 4 in the Barrack-yard this morning, and the sentenceNn.the Serjrant-Major, the Serjeant of the Guard, two Cor porals, and eighteen privates, far the offences pre• viously stated, and which had occupied the attentidn of a Regiment:d Court-Martial for two days were stated, and were as under Serjeant-Mijor Watkins—To be degraded to the ranks, and to receive tatihes, Serjeant Grimes (the Serjeant of the Guard)—To be degraded to the ranks, and to receive zoo lashes. The two Corporals, Hampton and Humphries—To be de graded to the ranks, and to receive zoo lashes each. The IS Privates, viz. William Lewis, William Woodlands, James Taylor, William Coot, John Leach, William Key ' voids, George Reynolds, Timothy Deice, John Johnson, Thomas 'Chambers, Jeremiah Hayward, Charles Sage, William Lopharn, William Butler, James Moxhatn, Hugh Williams, George Grace, and George Hill, Zoo lashes each. Lieutenant• Colonel Olney pointed out. the nature of the cruises committed, in a forcible and feeling manner, and, in consequence of the recommenda tions to the mercy or the Court, he remitted the severe parts of the awarded punishments, that is to say, the flogging. The Serjeants and Cor porals, therefore, uere degraded to, the ranks merely, and the eighteen privates for that time forgiven. The Local Militia for the Eastern Division of this County, according to the present older, are to be mustered here on the 17th of September,. unless a countermand shouldqrreviously appear, and which it is generally hoped will be the case, or great in convenience must, be experienced among the har vesters, as harvest-home cannot be celebrated, ge nerally speaking, prior to that time, and the greater part of the individuals belonging, to this corps, we believe, ate at this moment adively,and, we may add, most usefully employed in the fields, and, it they can be permitted, will so continue to be, from the back wardness of the crops, until the end tit Septem ber at nearest. The weather now is settled, fine, and bright. We have had four most delightful days for harvest, and almost for every o! her purpose. Yesterday the General Court-Martial assembled again at Chelsea College, in pursuance of the ad journment on, the preceding day, made to further investigate the charges , preferred against Captain and Adjutant Mason, t! .;ticulars of which we stated yesterday. T!.c ;first evidence that was called was John Clinton, of the 4th company, who mentioned in the 4th Charge ; by whose testimony it appeared, that . in the month of January he was billed up in the store guard-room ; and t! at during his confinement there, owing to the closet ess of the place, he was frequently Under the necessity of hying down, in which situation some of his fellOw prisoners were obliged to walk over him ; and that he .was, dialing his confinement, in - a state of ex treme illness, notwithstanding w Ifich, his pillow ur,•s often either a pewter pot dr a brick; and that'to the best of Ins belief he was conk ed there by Captain Mason. In respect of billing of soldiers, one of the Mem bers of the Court made an observation, that it try quently was found 'necesary to bill them, for the express purpose I . f having the men at coinmand. was asked cross-examination of th e wit ne s s , it asked him if he had ever been tiied. b . ) a Reg;- mental Court Martial for nintinous intentions ? in answer to which he replied in the attirMative. Nut ithstanding which, he had in consequence therefore never received any punishment fur the alleged crime. - • The next evidence was James Hinton, of the Light Company, as also stated in the fourth Charge, who stated that he war likewise billed up in the store guard-room, hand-cuffed ; and that he was obliged, by order of Serjeant-Major Baker, to do such work as he was requested ; on which occasions, he had the hand-cun - S on one arm only ; and that the reason for being' so. confined and hand cuffed proceeded from his refusing to turn his jacket. John Reading (mentioned in the last charge as being violently struck by the prisoner with his cane, on or about the 15th of June, 1807, when under arms, the head of which entered his cap about three inches, and could trot be taken out but by force) appeared in Court with the cap ; but ow ing to the following section in the Mutiny Act, the charge was waved ; viz. " That no person shall be liable to be tried and punished for any of fence which shall appear to have been committed more than three years before the issuing of the warrant for such trial ; unless the person accused, by reason of his having absented himself, or of some manifest impediment, shall not have been amenable to justice wellin that period ; in which case such person shall be liable to be tried at any time not exceeding two years." In referring to the warrant, it appeared to be dated in the month of July last, on or about the 27th ; consequently th:s charge was not en tered upon. There were other witnessed examined, but their testimonies nor being worry of publicity, we there fore refrain from giving them. The last evidence was that of Capt, Millar, the Paymaster, which created much invest i'ert ion, owing to the great intricacy of his accounts ; on which the Hon. Charles Manners Sutton commented at con siderable length, as to the mode of their being kept. In one part of this investigation it appeared that it is usual for the Adjutant to certify that the ac counts are corre& before he hands them over to the Paymaster; and it uniformly appeared, that out of about thirty recruits he had aolually returned as having been paid each la l os. and which sum was charged in the War Office accounts, though he had in reality paid no such monies to the recruits, having generally obtaintd them for less sums, which has been already fully established by evi dence. The prisoner was then called on for his defence; but not being prepared, the Court adjourned to. this d:ty, in order to give blur time io prepare it. The burletta of Midas has been revived at the Lyceum in a splendid style, and is in general sup ported with such spirit and humour, as to give it re- Levied p4ularily. HOME CIRCUIT. SURREY ASSIZES. GUILDFORD, WEDNESDAY AUG. 22 . . The Lord Chief Baron finished the Calendar of prisoners last night, they being chiefly ea-es of petty thefts. Thii morning his Lordship came into Cow t at eight o'clock, for the purpose of trying traverses, which stood over fon' last AsSi4eS: NUISANCE. Manias Garner Richmond was indiaed for stop ping up an ancient toot-way in the parish of Rother 7 hithe, called Swan's passage, near Swan's-lane, in Rotherhithe•street. Mr. .Serjeant SHEPHERD, for the prosecution, stated, that the defendant, Mr. Richmond, was a corn-fgtor and seed-dealer, who had large ware bows over the passage in question, and for his private convenience he had. erected gates across this passage, and excluded the public from what he should. clearly prove was an ancient public foot way, and it. was most important that the public should have the, enjoyment of it, for it not unfre qutntly happened, that from the press of Faits in Swan's-lane, .the toot passenger had no other Means of getting into Rotberhithe-street but through this passage, .which the defendant had•blocked up. Tote LORD CHIEF BARON asked Mr. Gurney, for the defendant, what was his defence, supposing the Serjeaut proved it tlr be a ptiblic way, at. he stated. gr. GURNEY replied, that he .could spew it was stopped up before the present defendant came into possOsion of the premises, and that it was done about eight years ago, at the request of the in habitants, because it was a receptacle for thieves and c)irt. • His I...irdship said, this would be no answer in point of law, and he could not receive evideitze of any such facts. Mr. GURNEY then proposed that it should stand over until next Assizes, to s‘.e it an amicable ar rangement could nut ne made between the parties, as the defendant was willing . to give the public a better way in another difect ion. Mr. Serjea t SHEPHERD observed this could be done' after the verdict. A %erdict of Guilty was then entered by consent. UERIURY. Thomas Haywood was inuided for wilful and cor rupt pcljury. Mi. NOLAN, Counsel for the prosecution, stated the eircumsta• ces f the case as follow :—The: de frodant, Haywo,d, had been principal groom to a • Mr. .Maoeny, who resided at Shirley-Hall, near Croydon.—it eocd that a favourite hunter of Mr. Mrherly's was takvn ill, and the tars pre scribed that the nor-estiould have as much barley as it could eat. The d. fenuant accordingly applied to the bailiff of M . and, said the horse required two s cks a dty. The - baiiiff thought it an unrea swank quantity, but as tile prisoner insisted the horse vet it, he gave him that, quantity. • Shortly afier%%ards a robbery being discovered in, Mr. Ma berly's house, the prisoner came to his-master, and said if he would fwgive him he would inform him of the condud of Baldwin, the coachman, Morris, the under-groom, and himself.--lie then stated,. that t hey •tied agreed to carry off the - barley which they procured for the horse, which was carried to the coachman's Wife, where it was to be disposed of for their joint use ; but afterwards fearing from other circumstances that Mr. •M. would detect the theft; they had taken away the corn, and threw it into a neighbouring ditch. He was carried before two Magistrat es, and swore to this statement. Dr. Rose at:d Mr. Chatfield took his depositions, and he was admitted an , evidente to prosecute Baldwin and Mori is. These depositions were now in Court, and it appeared that they were sworn on the 3d of April last. When, however, the prisoner -came to give his evidence, he contradiated every thing which he then swore, and in the presence of the Magis trates, and in the face of his own depositions, he told a wholly different story at - the trial, and for this perjury he now stood . indided indided. The Learned Counsel then put to his depositions, and proved, from the notes - taken at the trial of Baldwin and Morris, the difference of ,his testimony. He - waii found Guilty, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment, and to stand on the pillory at Croy don on a market day.—The Assizes here ended. RARA Avis.—Last week, a bird, hitherto un known in this country, was caught in the canal hear Skipton, by Mr. Thomas Bennett, of Bradley (wit the aid of dogs) ; and the nature and name of which puzzles many of our travellers now w this town. Some can it a shell-duck—others au American goo.e, and some give it other names. It is now alive in the possession of Joshua Alcock, Esq. of Leeds. It answers the following dimensions:— • Length from the bill .:ud to tail end - 37 Inch, Length of the lower hill 4 Length of the taper bill from the nostrils 3 Length from the tip of Its Wing across the • bacl: yd. I it. 9 • Height 2q • The upper bill is hooked, and y e ll ow at the tip —the breast is grey—the belly white—thick black leas—four claws on each foot, black and webbed, and formed like a bast—dark bottle green neck— back, brown. It is remarkably voracious, and swallows fish' whole, from six to eight ounces, with the.greatest facility. It darts with great velocity at any one who attempts to approach it, and aims, as is usual with birds of prey, at the eyes. Two of the birds called the Crossbill, or German. Parrot (male and female), were shot a few days since by Mr. William Webster, of name, in his garden. Two Crossbills, or German Parrots, were lately• shot by Mr. Hobert Shilter, of Halesbury Bryant, in the county of Dorset. The Curvirostra, or Crossbill,. though not common in those parts, has frequently been shot in the Longleat pldrata lions ; and about seven years ago many of them, but not in large flights, were seen for a consider able time in the autumn, at Bratton, in the parish of Westbury, where they did considerable damage to the crop of apples. They strike an apple of mid lings size in two pieces 'at one blow with their bill, merely to get at the kernels ; but they do rot feed oo the flesh of the appk. Numbers at Crossbills have lately made their appearance in different parts of Scotland. YORKSHIRE ASSIZES. Mr. John Gli,ver, of Leeds, whitesmith, obtain , d a ierditi, %tit • 91. damages apitist Sir H. C. lob ,t -ssn, Bart. of Dent6n Park, uear Odey, under the fol lowing circumstances • Mr. M. , v,r made for Sir Henry an engine for t . e purpose of weighing cattle alive, wh r by to, slicer lain their improv ement in f ee di ng. Sir Henry, it is will known;\ is a . great experimental farmer, and was of course anxious to have this machine as com plete as possible. The machine was pill up, and Sir Henry, paid 201. in part of its price; to recover the balance of t, u guineas stated to be due to Mr. Glo ver, for alterations, &c. this aaion was brought. Sir Henry had resisted the Payment on the ground that the engine was incomplete. Mr. Greenwood deposed to this effea, and said, " that it was utterly impossible to weigh correctly on such a machine." • Mr. Henry Gothard supprTteLl his eiidence, as did John Hohnes, Sir Henry's hind. Mr. - H. F. S,:utt said, that be waited upon Mr. Glover, at Leeds, along -with his 'relation Sir Henry IbbAson 'about Easter.- Sir Henry said, that from eve,}- trial - he lied made, he:was so thoroughly convinced the machine , had some radical defect, , that he would give Mr. Glover five pounds to take it again ; or if he would make it appliCabLi to the purpose intended, he wouht .pay all expences of the alterations.. Mr. Glover re turned no specific answer to this proposal, out said *the machine would preci-ion it the mal were placed, exa6tly in the .rniddle Gi the ttiat -form. To this Sir Henry replied, that he could not prevail upon living animals to stall eiuLtly to L.a-i position, On the part of the plaintiff it was adduced by Mr. John Cawood . ,'ol . Leeds, iron-foul:111r, that. ire bad made several' experiments upon the machine, anti found it to be mart accurately aijusted. Mr. Thu, Weare, of Leeds, hoilJer, and Mr. George Sykes, of Winmoor, deposed to the s am e effect. _ _ Mr. PARKE, the plaintiff's Counsel, spoke at gre: t length, and contended that the machine, big oii,i o f t h e agrieiln oi'3l fncies or novelties of the present day, made by the order and under the ditedion o . Sir Henry, ought to be paid tor, as the mech c could not, under4iuch circumsiances, be responsible., for its detects. The Jkiry give a verdia fir the plaintiff-1)a. wages 91. On Sunday forenoon a.severe accident happened to Mr. Whelbourn,.clerk in the bre,%ery of Mt-sirs. Clarke and Gee, of Boston. 'lra:ening with his wife and two children towards Spalding, io a gig. between Surtt-et and Gosberton, the horse tout fright, overturned the gig, and broke it to pieces. I n the fall Mr . W: had one of hip knees very badly frac tured; his wife was also much hurt; and the chil dren thrown into the most perilous situations ;• one of them was taken up from under a wheel of the A,haise; bar, providentially, neither of them was. much injured. Buckley, Flerning; Brenwick,'and Sullivan, found guilty of the murder 01 John Bolding, at the I:te Chelrrisford Assizes, were re.pil'evetl; but Sweeny and Pearce underwent the sentence of the- Sapilday morning, They aseenSed the platform about half after /3 - o'clock,..attended by iwo Boman Catholic Clergymen, with whom , falling on their knees, they joined in prayer, with apparent devo tion, for a tew minutes ; yet, al er being tied up, and before the Clergymen - had quitted them/both the culprits threw off their shoes, SWeeny kicking his to a distance with. some violence. They were Shortly afterwards launched into eternity, in pre sence of a vast concourse of speEtators. Their bo- dies were delivered to the surgeons-for disseaion # . HIGH TIDE --Thursday week, an e xtraor di nary high tide, accompanied by a boisterous north wind, and very tempestuous, sea, swept stkay about 30 yards in .length of the outer wall of Clifford's Fort, at Tynemouth, .which has stood since .1746. Some Masses of stone were carried, by the force of the waters, near 30 yards from the site of the 'wall. It also tore up and carried away some hundred tors of earth and gravel to the eastward of the tort; and de stroyed the blocks lately erected for laying do%4n the frame of a new ship. This tide was also felton the Lincolnshire coast. It has done some damage to the embankment in different plaoes, but particue lady to the new bank in Skirbeck parish,- the guar)• tity of five or six yards of which in one place is coml• pletely carried away from the base. The sea flowed into the neighbouring corn lands to the depth of about six inches, but did no material damage. Early rei aration was afforded by WO . hands with many carts on Thursday ; but the injury done to the bank by that morning's tide, it is supposed, will CUSI 10001. A letter nom Mr. Leonard Knaggs, who was taken in the 4Vepitine, Allinson, in July 1803, to his hi°. they in Whitby, dated Olivet, 26th ult. contains tl:e following particulars : On the Ist of April last, Mr% Knaggs, w:th a fellow prismier, contrived to effect their escape Irons prison, and had travelled four days unmolested, when about midnight they unfortunately fell in with a band of robbers, five in number, who in sisted upon plundering•them of the few articles they had been able to bring away wit It, them. The pour men, rendered desperate by the sufferings they had undergone during so long a period of confinement, maintained a successful resistance such su perior numbers for half an Ilptir, when ole of t-Leir opponents clapping a pistol to the. breast of hispati. tier, they Were compeled to surt'ender. The rob be.rs, though from their having so long deferred to produce the pistol, it would seem they were Zing to take life, had nevertheless tl,e inhumanity to deprive them not only of their money and provi sions, but also of their shoes, stoci,inos, and shirts. In this deplorable state they were found the follow ing morning, and marched back in chains to th , :ir former prison, where, though Mr. Knaggs was wounded in three places, they were thrown into a cell twelve feet below the ground, and confined there 31 days, as a punishment for leaving the pri son. The writer had recovered of his wounds ; but observes, that their sufferings would have been extreme, had it not been for the humane attention soewo thew by some of their townsmen in tia; same prison."